... tools in the micromechanics of materials. One of its implications is the possibility to relate the compliance/resistivity contributions of cracks—the key quantities in the problem of effective elastic/conductive properties—to the stress intensity factors (SIFs) and thus to utilize a large library...

...Hwun Park; Weinong W. Chen Dynamic crack propagation across a perpendicular interface in a glass specimen was investigated to understand the interaction between the crack and the interface under impact loading. The glass specimen was composed of two glass plates in an edge-to-edge configuration...

... orientation combinations and crystal properties are examined. 17 05 2010 22 06 2010 07 07 2010 13 10 2010 13 10 2010 cracks crystal orientation finite element analysis grain boundaries stress analysis stress-strain relations Crack growth in polycrystalline...

... Dirichlet-to-Neumann map boundary conditions on a circular boundary that encloses the plastic zone. This construct allows for a dense finite-element mesh within the plastic zone and accurate far-field boundary conditions. Details of the crack tip field that have been computed previously by others, including...

...Linhui Zhang; Jeong-Ho Kim This paper provides full asymptotic crack-tip field solutions for an antiplane (mode-III) stationary crack in a functionally graded material. We use the complex variable approach and an asymptotic scaling factor to provide an efficient procedure for solving standard...

... 440 ° C / mm at temperature), consisted of repeated front-side heating with a flame and constant cooling of the back-side of the substrate either with front-side radiative cooling only or with additional forced air cooling between the heating cycles. The coatings exhibited characteristic “mud-cracking...

...Nazile B. Rassoulova The paper studies the dynamical propagation of star-shaped cracks symmetrically arranged in an elastic thin plate, subjected to the action of instantly applied, comprehensively (uniformly) stretching stresses, which implies a self-similar problem with homogeneous stresses...

... composite laminate sheet is analyzed. The fracture process zone (or cohesive zone) at the corner is approximated as an equivalent sharp crack according to the linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM). The asymptotic singular stress and displacement fields surrounding the corner tip and the tip...

.... A., and Herrmann, G., 1981, “On Energy Release Rates for a Plane Cracks,” ASME J. Appl. Mech., 48, pp. 525–530 ; King, R. B., and Herrmann, G., 1981, “Nondestructive Evaluation of the J- and M-Integrals,” ASME J. Appl. Mech., 48, pp. 83–87 ) to study the degradation of a brittle plan strip caused by irreversible...

... the global structural response of composite laminates subjected to distributed pressure pulses. 27 02 2008 13 05 2008 15 06 2009 carbon fibre reinforced plastics cracks delamination fracture impact (mechanical) laminates projectiles laminated composites impact loading...

...Jeong-Hoon Song; Ted Belytschko A finite element method for the simulation of dynamic cracks in thin shells and its applications to quasibrittle fracture problem are presented. Discontinuities in the translational and angular velocity fields are introduced to model cracks by the extended finite...

...Xiaohong Chen A nonlinear field theory of fracture mechanics is developed for crack propagation in paramagnetic and ferromagnetic materials from the global energy balance equation and the non-negative global dissipation requirement. The crack-front generalized J ̃ -integral is equivalent...

...Ratnesh Khandelwal; J. M. Chandra Kishen The concept of domain integral used extensively for J integral has been applied in this work for the formulation of J 2 integral for linear elastic bimaterial body containing a crack at the interface and subjected to thermal loading. It is shown...

... bristles of two brushes when pressed together. The adhesive strength of the system is promoted by high elastic modulus, high friction coefficient, large aspect ratio, and dense packing of the fibers. However, the design is limited by the compressive buckling, the compressive indentation or cracking...

... in general exhibit oscillatory singularities near the two tips of the arc shaped interface crack. Particularly the traditional inverse square root singularity for stresses is observed when the asymptotic behavior of the harmonic materials obeys a constitutive restriction proposed by Knowles and Sternberg...

...Asif Israr; Matthew P. Cartmell; Emil Manoach; Irina Trendafilova; Wiesław Ostachowicz; Marek Krawczuk; Arkadiusz Żak This study proposes an analytical model for vibrations in a cracked rectangular plate as one of the results from a program of research on vibration based damage detection...

...Zhong-min Wang; Yan Wang; Yin-feng Zhou Based on the thin plate theory and the two-dimensional viscoelastic differential type constitutive relation, the differential equation of motion of a viscoelastic plate containing an all-over part-through crack and subjected to uniformly distributed...

...Marek-Jerzy Pindera; Glaucio H. Paulino 24 07 2008 boundary-value problems cracks elastic moduli elasticity fracture mechanics functionally graded materials Professor Fazil Erdogan has influenced several generations of applied and solid mechanicians working in the area...

...Bora Yıldırım; Suphi Yılmaz; Suat Kadıoğlu The objective of this study is to investigate a particular type of crack problem in a layered structure consisting of a substrate, a bond coat, and an orthotropic functionally graded material coating. There is an internal crack in the orthotropic coating...

...Linfeng Chen; Marek-Jerzy Pindera In a recent investigation of microstructural effects in finite periodic multilayers, we have shown that under Mode I loading, the crack-opening displacement approaches that of the same crack in an equivalent homogenized material as the microstructure comprised...